[pygame] Re:

["Jake b" <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

You need to call the parent class's init function:

class basicsprite(pygame.sprite.Sprite): #create a sprite class

   def __init__(self, img):
       pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
       self.image = pygame.image.load(img).convert_alpha()
       self.rect = self.image.get_rect()

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Jake